Show TICKLER BOUGHT ON PIKE IS CAUSE OF A FIGHT it was all on account of a tickler the result was aught in which several young men engaged several heads were battered up and a trio of the fighters are expected in fhe municipal court this morning to tell their story to judge murphy harry edwards who purchased the tickler told the segry to the police after it was all over harry said that he bad the cause of the trouble taken from bis hands and he merely attempted to recover his own the result of these attempts was that the crowd who numbered about ten adjourned from the pahe to the yard of the central school 0 o have it out according to edwards story there were about alyc who jumped upon him during the course of the proceedings and hla face showed that he had been in a up of some sort ho is supposed to have gotten the worst of it tor it was ho himself who went to the police station and told bla troubles to captain brown while the melee was still in progress the cry of here come the cops was set up and the way the crowd scattered would have done a russian army justice the cops were coming sure enough and edwards hit the trial in ciuch a hurried flight as to leave bis coat behind this piece of wearing apparel the officers recovered and took to the station house it was this move that probably led up to the discovery of the combatants at first it seemed queer that edwards would come voluntarily to the jail when ho was apparently one of the prime movers in the affair but when he was given his coat the secret was let out the laa at once dived into the inside pocket and exclaimed to his companion its gone boyst athla he explained meant the loss of a five dollar gold piece that he claimed he had tied up in a handkerchief in one of his pockets this too was probably why he went to the jail to tell bis story |